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Niall Pemberton resolved IO-147.
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       Resolution: Fixed
    Fix Version/s: 1.4
         Assignee: Niall Pemberton

> Deletion of orphaned Softlinks does not work
> --------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: IO-147
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-147
>             Project: Commons IO
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 1.3.2
>         Environment: Debian Linux JDK 1.5
>            Reporter: Stefan Lischke
>            Assignee: Niall Pemberton
>            Priority: Critical
>             Fix For: 1.4
>
>         Attachments: FileUtils.patch
>
>
> If there is an orphaned softlink a -> b, but b does not exists anymore than 
> the softlink will not be removed. This happens when you call 
> FileUtils.deleteDirectory() and when the linked target b is deleted earlier 
> than the link.
> This is caused by the "ugly" file.exists() call in forceDelete()
> if (!file.exists()) {
>          throw new FileNotFoundException("File does not exist: " + file);
> }
> if this check is not done, everything works as expected. I think this test is 
> not neccessery, cause file.delete will test this better.
> Please discuss and change this.
> thanx
> Stefan 

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